Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown in Dub (Heartbeat). Review by Bill Campbell.
Music Reviews
Faced with the rich sonic twister of music ever churning around us, our writers strap on headphones and hunker down with these tunes and their words to lead everyone to the bottom of what sounds good right now.
Pere Ubu
St. Arkansas (spinART). Review by James Mann.
Le Hammond Inferno
My First Political Dance Album (Bungalow). Review by Bill Campbell.
Hefner
Dead Media (Too Pure / Beggars Banquet). Review by Ian Koss.
The Countrypolitans
Face of My Hometown (Sideburn). Review by Sean Slone.
The Klezmatics
Jews With Horns (Rounder). Review by Matt Cibula.
Nutrajet
Protection EP (Twenty Stone Blatt). Review by Brian Kruger.
Hans Zimmer
Black Hawk Down: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Decca). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
DB
10 (Breakbeat Science). Review by Bill Campbell.
Ely Guerra
Lotofire (OmTown / Higher Octave). Review by Bill Campbell.
36 Crazyfists
Bitterness The Star (Roadrunner). Review by Stein Haukland.
Greenwheel
Hello (Island). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Half-Handed Cloud
Learning About Your Scale (Asthmatic Kitty). Review by Kurt Channing.
The Kickovers
Osaka (Fenway). Review by Stein Haukland.
Lush Life
Electronica (Quango). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Supersuckers
Must’ve Been Live (Mid-Fi). Review by Julio Diaz.
Nice
My Planet (Tank Farm). Review by Stein Haukland.
The Lesser Birds of Paradise
It Isn’t the Fall (Loose Thread). Review by Stein Haukland.
The Drop
Iceland (Loveless). Review by Terry Eagan.
Jools Holland + His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Jools Holland’s Big Band Rhythm + Blues (Rhino). Review by Ian Koss.
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